Thyliatithus.'] Euphoi'biacecB. 25 



A shrub, 3-4 ft., young parts glabrous ; 1. \-% in., on short 

 petioles, rather close but not overlapping, oval, slightly oblique, 

 •obtuse at both ends, apiculate, thin, paler beneath ; male fl. 

 on filiform ped, longer than 1., fem. larger, on longer ped. 

 •at upper ends of branchlets ; male fl. : — sep. 4, oval, fimbriate 

 ■or toothed; disk of 4 glands; anth. dehiscing transversely; 

 fem. fl,: — sep. 6, as in male; disk expanded, slightly lobed; 

 fr. \ in., smooth, cocci thinly crustaceous. 



Upper montane zone ; rare. Horton Plains ; Uva Prov. Fl. Feb. 

 Endemic. 



15. P. longriflorus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. n. 2905 (1828). 

 P'l. B. Ind. V. 302 (not given for Ceylon). 



A shrub ; branchlets numerous, crowded at upper ends 

 •of stems, quite glabrous ; 1. |-i in., very distichous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, unequal-sided, somewhat falcate, acute, rather 

 thick, paler beneath, but glabrous ; stip. subulate, persistent ; 

 male fl. very small, on short ped.; sep. 4, oval, obtuse, entire; 

 •disk of 4 rounded glands ; fem. fl. much larger, sep. 6, as in 

 male ; fr. \ in., globose, smooth and shining. 



Low country ; very rare. On Doluwe Kande, Four Korales Dist. 

 Fl. Dec. 



Also in S. India and Malay Peninsula. 



My specimens are imperfect, and I cannot feel certain of the name. 

 The plant has much resemblance to P. pulcher, Wall., but the sep. are 

 not laciniate. Dries a dull greyish-brown. 



16. P. hakgralensis, Thiv. ex Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 242 

 •(1885), (misprinted Uakgalensis). 



Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 80. C. P. 4015. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 291. 



A small shrub, with many short slender branches, young 

 parts glabrous ; 1. crowded, not distichous, numerous, small, 

 under | in., oblong-linear, nearly sessile, tapering to base, 

 acute at apex, not falcate or oblique ; stip. subfalcate, very 

 acute, persistent ; fl. solitary on ped. nearly as long as 1., fem. 

 twice size of male ; male fl. : — sep. 4., ^ in., broadly oval or 

 rounded, very obtuse, entire, glabrous ; disk of 6 glands ; 

 statn. 4, fil. connate; fem. fl. : — sep. 6, \ in., as in male; disk 

 pulvinate ; fr. globose, i in., quite smooth, enclosed in 

 the enlarged calyx. 



Montane zone; very rare. I have only seen the C. P. specimens 

 which were presumably collected at Hakgala. Fl. {}) 



Endemic. 



The Fl. B. Ind. places this in sect. Paraphyllanthus ; it seems to 

 •come rather under Reidia, but my material is very scanty. The 

 scattered, not distichous, leaves are remarkable ; they are copiously 

 dotted beneath. 



